johnhoang87 Posted June 27, 2018 Report Share Posted June 27, 2018 For some reason, a lot of people keep telling me that my taste in music is very dreary/dull. I've listed some examples that I can think of below: *A boy at school said to me that "I have one of the strangest tastes in music" that he's ever come across *I once gave my dad a couple of CDs, and he refused to take them because he found the music all sounded the same *A lot of people have said that the Foo Fighters album "One By One" is one of their least memorable, but it's their only album that I can remember everything on *Someone here said that I listened to a lot of "mediocre bands" *My dad told me that there was no Coldplay or U2 song more memorable than Radiohead's "Creep". I could name several older Coldplay and U2 tracks, along with several Radiohead ones off of the same album (You, Lurgee, Prove Yourself) So these are some songs that I'm currently into: *Lurgee by Radiohead *Clocks by Coldplay *Bionic by Placebo *Porcelain by Moby *You Don't Have to Tell Me Now by Grant Hart *Untitled by Interpol *Vapour Trail by Ride *Pieces by Dinosaur Jr *Shining Light by Ash *If You're Thinking Of Me by Dodgy *Disorder by Joy Division Do you know why other people call this stuff dull but I find it far easier to remember than what they listen to? Is there any similarity between these songs? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted June 27, 2018 Report Share Posted June 27, 2018 Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted June 27, 2018 Report Share Posted June 27, 2018 is this the original 106 'Middle aged man driving home from work' playlist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted June 27, 2018 Report Share Posted June 27, 2018 You listen to a lot of mediocre bands. There you go, now at least it's not entirely made up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colb Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 No one is into Clocks by Coldplay, even Coldplay don't like Coldplay songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 Grant Hart though. RIP GBOL Maybe your dad refused to take your CDs because who the hell has a CD player anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 Shining Light by Ash is a pure fucking banger like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 2 hours ago, James Broonbreed said: Shining Light by Ash is a pure fucking banger like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 A bot, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 2 hours ago, scottyboy said: A bot, no? Yeah. Should probably delete this. I just loved the ridiculousness of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 The bots start all the best threads tbf. We'll gang up on anything, even a not-real poster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan G Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 The biggest give away - apart from all of it - is the line: 'Someone here said that I listened to a lot of "mediocre bands"' In a first post. Can someone explain to me the point of spam-bots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest E.C Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 Personally, I am a big fan of this line: "My dad told me that there was no Coldplay or U2 song more memorable than Radiohead's "Creep"." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan G Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 I also like how the first sentence says "a lot of people keep telling me that my taste in music is very dreary/dull" then the next line says "A boy at school said to me that "I have one of the strangest tastes in music" that he's ever come across" It begs the question - which one is it? Dull or strange - which to me are borderline diametrically opposed. Or what sort of shit does the boy at school listen to if he thinks Coldplay are 'strange'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Dan G said: The biggest give away - apart from all of it - is the line: 'Someone here said that I listened to a lot of "mediocre bands"' In a first post. Can someone explain to me the point of spam-bots? The pattern seems to be that they post a few really generic comments so we think they're one of us, then they start posting the spammy links later. Like that one last week that posted insightful things like "in politics, everything is difficult" in the Politics forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 Coldplay would seem remarkably strange to the boy at school if all he listened to was perhaps David Gray and the Lighthouse Family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 14 minutes ago, Lemonade said: The pattern seems to be that they post a few really generic comments so we think they're one of us, then they start posting the spammy links later. Like that one last week that posted insightful things like "in politics, everything is difficult" in the Politics forum. See Exhibit A. That final post, where the spam is finally revealed, is a classic. "I decided to sniff their conversation" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsinho Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 I often use the public transportation system also. We have much in common! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 Greetings fellow person! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 https://www.musicbanter.com/general-music/86930-why-do-others-call-my-musical-taste-boring.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 24 minutes ago, Lemonade said: https://www.musicbanter.com/general-music/86930-why-do-others-call-my-musical-taste-boring.html That is some excellent Bot Conversation Sniffing. They've got a 7 page thread over there, and no one seems to be talking about how it's definitely a bot. Bunch of dweebs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 7 minutes ago, Soda Jerk said: That is some excellent Bot Conversation Sniffing. They've got a 7 page thread over there, and no one seems to be talking about how it's definitely a bot. Bunch of dweebs. The OP on that thread has 157 posts, I think that may be genuine. Then our bot copy pasted it for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 Oh dang. Didn't spot that. Now I'm the dweeb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 5 minutes ago, Soda Jerk said: Oh dang. Didn't spot that. Now I'm the dweeb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 Is there any way the forum could attract more bots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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